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Researchers have learned that by preserving large superficial leg veins intended for coronary bypass grafting in a mixture of the anticoagulant heparin and blood, rather than heparin and saline, the veins were better protected from cell and tissue damage. In severe cases of coronary artery disease, blood flow to the heart is impeded. Surgeons improve blood flow by using veins from the leg to reroute the blood flow in the heart. During these procedures, surgeons remove a section of vein and typically preserve it in a saline solution for two to four hours until it's needed. A decade or more...

We've heard repeatedly from the White House that they "encourage" Americans to get yet another COVID booster, which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved earlier this month. President Joe Biden received his own, last week, or so we've been told. While the president has received previous doses in public during press conferences, that wasn't the case this time. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took a question during Monday's press briefing about such a decision for the president to have his COVID booster and flu vaccine out of the public eye. "Isn’t this a time when, you know, given...

Date Issued: September 8, 2022 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing the public about reports of cancers, including squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and various lymphomas, in the scar tissue (capsule) that forms around breast implants. The various lymphomas reported are not the same as the lymphomas described in previous FDA Communications as Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (BIA-ALCL). The FDA learned about these reports through our continual postmarket review of breast implants and our ongoing collaboration with external stakeholders. After preliminary review of published literature as part of our ongoing monitoring of the safety of breast...

J.D. Rucker at the Liberty Daily suggested Obama may, in fact, be lying about his vaccination status. "I say he is 'allegedly' triple-jabbed because I've started questioning whether any of the globalist elites are actually getting the COVID injections or if they're lying," Rucker said. "It's conspicuous that despite the massive number of adverse reactions being reported every day, we never hear about the people at the top of the globalist food chain experiencing negative effects from the jabs they allegedly get. It's just as easy to get jabbed with saline as it is with the so-called 'vaccines.'

Though it took months to confirm it, Tatum Strieter-Byron knew from the start what no one seemed to want to believe. The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine brought about the April 21 death of her mother, 60-year-old Sandra Jacobs of Saline, a grandmother, a friend, an employee. Rationalizing or explaining this as rare doesn’t help Strieter-Byron, who still finds herself picking up the phone, without thinking, to contact the first person she always called or texted with important news: her mother. “She was a real person. She is not a piece of just like fictitious political propaganda, where they’re saying...

A rare mix-up in the COVID-19 vaccine process happened at a Monroe Walgreens, NBC affiliate WCNC Charlotte reports. Walgreens confirmed it accidentally gave some people an injection of saline instead of the COVID-19 vaccine. Walgreens said it reached out to all impacted patients and administered the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as patients were able to return to the pharmacy, according to WCNC. Walgreens said it is investigating what happened. Officials have taken immediate steps to review Walgreens' procedures. SNIP

In a letter to Rep. Trent Franks, Melissa Ohden tells her story: “In August 1977, my biological mother, a 19-year-old college student, was forced to undergo a saline infusion abortion. My medical records from St. Luke’s Hospital in Sioux City, Iowa, indicate that she was believed to be approximately 20 weeks pregnant with me at that time. They state that “a saline infusion for an abortion was done, but was unsuccessful.” Those same records then proceed to later identify a complication of her pregnancy as “saline infusion.” A saline infusion abortion involves injecting a toxic salt solution into the amniotic...

SALINE, MI - A 47-year-old Adrian woman lost her job after police determined she put laxatives in a departing co-worker's going-away brownies. Police were called on May 3 to MMI Engineered Solutions, 1715 Woodland Drive in Saline, after the company received a tip from an employee that the woman planned to put laxatives in brownies she was bringing to a send-off for another worker, said Saline Police Chief Jerrod Hart. The company intervened, confiscated the suspect brownies and called police before the brownies could be eaten, Hart said. When interviewed by police, the 47-year-old initially denied putting laxatives in the...

SAN ANTONIO -- Hospitalized patients given IV balanced fluids instead of saline showed a roughly 1% decreased incidence of death and serious kidney injury, according to results of two studies that compared outcomes with the two widely used IV trauma therapies. The improved outcomes, seen in both critically ill and non-critically ill patients, suggest that largely replacing saline with balanced fluids in the hospital setting could result in significant mortality and morbidity reductions, said Matthew W. Semler, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, in a presentation at the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) annual meeting. The results...

Hospitals across the country are struggling to deal with a shortage of one of their essential medical supplies. Manufacturers are rationing saline — a product used all over the hospital to clean wounds, mix medications and treat dehydration. Now drug companies say they won’t be able to catch up with demand until next year. ...“The Most Expensive Drug Shortage in History” The burden ultimately falls on hospitals, clinics, and dialysis centers to come up with their own workarounds. And all that staff time adds up. Hospitals spend $216 million a year on the labor costs of managing drug shortages, according...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it is working with the three manufacturers of intravenous saline solutions commonly used to hydrate hospital patients to address a shortage caused by a spike in demand. To cope with the shortage, healthcare providers are using substitute products such as oral hydration fluids or smaller IV saline bags with slower drip rates when appropriate, said Bona Benjamin, director of medication use quality improvement for the American Society of Health System Pharmacists. "We have heard from our members all over the country that the shortage is serious," Benjamin said. "People are able...

How is this shortage of Normal Saline going to affect your facilities? I hear that Baxter may have production levels back to normal on the 17th January? This has the potential to be detrimental to our dialysis patients. Fresenius are also experiencing a shortage of saline Are your facilities making back up plans? I hear that hospitals will be affected too! Some of the units I work with use a vast amount of Normal saline per day What I want to know is how are these 'drugs' in short supply? Normal Saline, seriously how can this happen!

The death toll at a hospital where medical supplies were deliberately sabotaged could rise still further, police said last night, after they began investigating the deaths of two more patients. Detectives launched a murder inquiry last week after three people being treated at the Stepping Hill hospital in Stockport died when batch of saline solution was contaminated with insulin Rebecca Leighton, 27, a nurse at the hospital was still being questioned last night after being arrested on suspicion of murder. She was arrested on Wednesday morning at her flat just a mile from the hospital where she was employed as...

Paul Christensen cast his line deftly into the water. Seconds later, the line went taut and he went to work to reel in his catch. The outcome was never in doubt, but the fish was not giving up without a fight. After a couple of minutes, Christensen showed off his catch, a carp of about 5 pounds (more like 3 pounds), hooked on the soccer field at Fuller Park in Ann Arbor Friday. That’s right, a soccer field. “It’s sort of a making lemonade out of lemons situation,” said Dirk Fischbach of Saline, who came out with Christensen Friday to...

Saline police say an 11-year-old boy fell unconscious and went into convulsions after he was assaulted by a group of students on a school playground earlier this week. The victim, a 6th grade student at Heritage Elementary School, was taken to the University of Michigan Medical Center by ambulance after school officials learned he was suffering seizure-like symptoms late Tuesday morning. He was released later that evening. .... Bunten said the altercation started shortly after 11 a.m. during lunch hour at the school at 290 E. Woodland Dr. The victim was surrounded by the students on a field and was...

The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Saline spray may help control fluBy Maggie FoxREUTERS NEWS AGENCYPublished November 30, 2004 Simply inhaling a saltwater spray could help prevent the spread of diseases including flu and tuberculosis, U.S. and German researchers reported yesterday.     They found a saline spray, administered using a device called a jet nebulizer, reduced the number of germ-spreading droplets by as much as 70 percent for six hours.     The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could provide a way to help control epidemics, such as the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome that spread...

City looks into rental of complex by group A local nudist club's use of the Saline Recreation Complex for evening events, including nude swims, is raising eyebrows on the City Council. The council on Monday discussed the propriety of renting the city-operated facility at 1866 Woodland Drive to the Southeast Michigan Naturists and asked for a staff report by Feb. 3. The club apparently has been renting the facility on occasion for several years, but council members said they just learned of it. "I don't know of any city-owned facility, paid for with taxpayer money, state and federal grants, that...

Jack Kenny: Abortion survivor tells story of struggles,triumph and faith By JACK KENNY SOME KIDS don’t know when to quit. Gianna Jessen never learned how. By her own account she came into this world under extraordinary circumstances, having already suffered brain damage due to oxygen deprivation. She was diagnosed with cerebral palsy by doctors who would later be amazed that she could sit up, much less walk. At 25, she walks with a pronounced limp and admits to frequent and unexpected falls. She doesn’t mind telling audiences she has gotten rather good at it over the years. “After 25 years...